M 4.7 in Indonesia on 17 Feb 2020 12:11 UTC

Event summary

This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID EQ 1206859
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 59.25 Km
Lat/Lon: -7.4147 , 105.8858
Event Date: 17 Feb 2020 12:11 UTC
17 Feb 2020 19:11 Local
Exposed Population:
2950000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 Feb 2020 12:31 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us70007rtb Scaled population (vector) 5.83  
  C1 earthquake 1.54  
  C2 earthquake -0.64  
  Country Vulnerability 0.09  
  INFORM_normalised 0.96  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),